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Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1
By Billy Childs
Label: Lunacy Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: In Carson's Eyes; Goodbye; Friend; Into the Light; Prelude in Bb Major; The Old Man Tells
His Story; Hope in the Face of Despair; Scarborough Faire; Quiescence; American
Landscape.
Billy Childs: Lyric
by John Dworkin
Billy Childs' new recording Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1 may seem a radical new direction from his previously recorded output as a jazz pianist/leader. But, somewhat under the public's marketing radar, for the last six years or so Childs has been spending much of his energy on larger scale composition, arranging, and orchestrations. While still a ...
Billy Childs Ensemble: Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1
by Renato Wardle
Since its birth, the world of jazz has been at odds with the realm of classical music. Owing to the presupposition that these two musical worlds are possessed of an incongruent aesthetic, a fusion between them may seem impossible. However, Lyric shows that music is music. With the first installment of his new Jazz-Chamber Music series, ...
Summertime
By Mike Clark
Label: JazzKey Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Brujo; Fee Fi Fo Fum; Summertime; For Duke; U.T. ; Prince of Darkness; Angelica;
Three Pawns; Dolores.
Bedtime Stories: A Tribute To Herbie Hancock
By Billy Childs
Label: 32 Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Ain
Billy Childs: Bedtime Stories: A Tribute To Herbie Hancock
by AAJ Staff
With Todd Barkan now at the helm of 32 Jazz, West Coast jazz musicians are receiving more attention, what with the label releasing new CD’s by under-recorded and vastly talented pianists Denny Zeitlin and Billy Childs, among other musicians with a West Coast presence. With the jazz press concentrated in New York and to a lesser ...
Billy Childs Trio: Bedtime Stories
by Glenn Astarita
These days, piano trio-based recordings are sprouting faster than weeds growing out of concrete; however, the highly respected pianist Billy Childs breathes renewed life into a set dedicated to pianist/composer Herbie Hancock, titled Bedtime Stories – A Tribute to Herbie Hancock. And along with the ace rhythm section of bassist George Mraz and drummer Billy Hart, ...
Billy Childs/Buster Williams/Carl Allen: Skim Coat
by Ed Kopp
Skim Coat brings together three highly compatible players: Billy Childs (piano), Buster Williams (bass) and Carl Allen (drums). It’s a thoughtful but accessible modern jazz album--the perfect accompaniment to a pot of coffee and the Sunday newspaper.Metropolitan Records owner Stan Chovnick recruited this trio on the strength of its performance at a 1998 jazz ...
